Product category:
Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls
News Release from: Micromech | Subject: Geo Brick LV
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 26 February 2008
Standalone controller handles varied
motors
The Geo Brick LV provides control of up to eight disparate motor types and features an integrated high-performance Turbo PMAC controller.
Delta Tau has released the Geo Brick LV low-voltage standalone controller, suitable for controlling all types of low-voltage servo and stepping motors The latest Brick Controller is a fully programmable motion controller based around a Turbo PMAC platform
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 26 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Geo Brick LV provides control of up to eight disparate motor types and, like its high-voltage counterpart, features an integrated high-performance Turbo PMAC controller.
It also includes up to eight configurable low voltage amplifiers capable of running any type of motor from DC servo to synchronous AC servo and stepper technology.
Readily programmable for virtually any kind of motion control application, the PMAC2 controller offers S-curve acceleration and deceleration, cubic B-spline interpolation and optional multimove look ahead for velocity and acceleration limiting.
Amplifiers within the unit are rated at 5A continuous, with a 10A peak facility at 48V.
A Macro interface option complements the USB and Ethernet interfaces which are fitted as standard.
There are also facilities for adding analogue inputs and digital I/O that in many applications eliminates the need for a separate PLC to be used to provide standard machine control functions.
The new Brick controller is an open architecture controller with the ability to store programs locally.
Its built-in PLC execution makes it suitable for virtually any kind of automation application.
This tried and tested architecture allows for complete machine motion and logic control.
This product has four or eight axes of analogue +/- 10V filtered-PWM (12bit resolution) or pulse and direction outputs as standard.
Options are available for dual true-DAC analogue outputs at 18bit resolution or direct-PWM with current loop.
Feedback with quadrature incremental encoders is standard.
Options for sinusoidal, resolver or serial encoders are available.
The controller provides a standard I/O capability of 16 inputs and eight outputs at 12-24V fully protected and isolated with separate commons for each bank of eight inputs.
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